Seasonal NPS Jobs on Hold

kwc said:
From a personal perspective …

My DIL works for the National Park Service in Fairbanks, Alaska, as the Lead Park Ranger in the Alaska Public Lands Information Center. Well, now she’s the sole employee of the APLIC as her two other employees were terminated per the purge of probationary employees. And the GSA has notified the Cultural Center where the APLIC is located that the lease will be terminated at the end of this year. Not sure what’s going to happen next but there has been a pretty significant backlash from the Fairbanks community about this as well as much of the other bs flowing down from DOGE. To top this off it appears that the termination of the lease is a violation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act which states that the APLIC must be located in a visitor center (the Act also created the APLIC) and there are no other visitor centers in the Fairbanks area. The closest Center would be in Denali, 140 miles away, and it’s not large enough to house anything near what the current APLIC has in Fairbanks. The Fairbanks APLIC serves about 25,000 visitors each year.
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I'm gonna miss this place. I visit every time I'm in Fairbanks and really hope they back down on this closure in particular.

On a selfish note, do you happen to know when it's currently projected to close? I'll be up there in May and June.
 
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TheMountainRabbit said:
I'm.gonna miss this place. I visit every time I'm in Fairbanks and really hope they back down on this closure in particular.

On a selfish note, do you happen to know when it's currently projected to close? I'll be up there in May and June.
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End of 2025.
 
Bob said:
When I was witht he USFS i was a condintional employee for 2 years, heard pretty much the same those years. Was there thru 2 RIFs. .... People cried but progarms went on. There has always been waste in there. Someone is finally trying to weed that out.

Popular spots are to stay away from anyway, a lot of people trash everything .......
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That last RIF was 1992. Full disclosure. Hardly can be compared.
 
Given the way things are being managed in DC, waiting to see what happens may be a death sentence for anything you care about. Making a lot of noise and letting them know you care seems to have at least some mitigating effects.
 
John Morrow said:
Please explain how this is not a contradiction.
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Fed and State Government has always underfunded usfs and bureau land management. Can't get much clearer.

No more comments.... Not getting into political aspect
 
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